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Most Americans understand that in a hostile world, governments need to engage in some snooping to monitor and thwart our enemies. We know they need to crack codes and keep secrets. In exchange for handing the government that extraordinary power, we expect it to be exercised with prudence within a rubric of restraints on abuse. Events and revelations this spring have ushered in a season of suspicion on how the nation's vast spying bureaucracy has been deploying, abusing and applying its power. The Department of Justice appears not to have abided by its own rules in getting access to Associated Press telephone records in Washington and Hartford. Attorney General Eric Holder has...

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